Frank Hecker
@frankhecker.com
Resident of Howard County, Maryland, USA. Occasional blogger. Staff writer for the Okazu yuri news and review site. Author of the book That Type of Girl: Notes on Takako Shimura's Sweet Blue Flowers.
If you'd like some X schadenfreude: In trying to retire the old Twitter domain(s) they first forced everyone with a Yubikey two-factor device to re-enroll them, and now they've screwed up login for everyone with a Yubikey, even people who previously re-enrolled their keys as directed. 1/
November 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
If you'd like some X schadenfreude: In trying to retire the old Twitter domain(s) they first forced everyone with a Yubikey two-factor device to re-enroll them, and now they've screwed up login for everyone with a Yubikey, even people who previously re-enrolled their keys as directed. 1/
Dinner tonight: “The San Francisco Treat”, stir-fried rice variant. (Not by itself, it’s part of a chicken casserole.)
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Dinner tonight: “The San Francisco Treat”, stir-fried rice variant. (Not by itself, it’s part of a chicken casserole.)
Clarissa Harlowe: the OG champion of “posting through it”
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Clarissa Harlowe: the OG champion of “posting through it”
Episode 1 of the Thai #GL in prison show #Clairebell is up on YouTube. Classic setup (imprisoned innocent + ostracized "dangerous" inmate), high production values, excellent leads. You should watch it. Bonus trivia: someone's cell (Claire's?) is numbered "AO3". You know what to do. #yuri #yurisky
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Episode 1 of the Thai #GL in prison show #Clairebell is up on YouTube. Classic setup (imprisoned innocent + ostracized "dangerous" inmate), high production values, excellent leads. You should watch it. Bonus trivia: someone's cell (Claire's?) is numbered "AO3". You know what to do. #yuri #yurisky
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Me, booting up Myst (2021) for the first time: I'm excited, I could never figure anything out in middle school when I played the original on 3DO. This'll be so cool
Me, closing Myst (2021) two hours later: if I wanted to feel like a kid again, there's nothing like failing to solve a single puzzle
Me, closing Myst (2021) two hours later: if I wanted to feel like a kid again, there's nothing like failing to solve a single puzzle
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Me, booting up Myst (2021) for the first time: I'm excited, I could never figure anything out in middle school when I played the original on 3DO. This'll be so cool
Me, closing Myst (2021) two hours later: if I wanted to feel like a kid again, there's nothing like failing to solve a single puzzle
Me, closing Myst (2021) two hours later: if I wanted to feel like a kid again, there's nothing like failing to solve a single puzzle
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Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
October 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
My favorite character in Yuri Is My Job
Via Miman-sensei's twitter (@ n28Miman): God LOOK at fuckin' Wolf Sumika tho.
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 AM
My favorite character in Yuri Is My Job
This and other work out of Metalabel (especially including work relating to proposed "artist corporations") are worth reading by anyone interested in potential futures for art and (human) artists. blog.metalabel.com/whats-the-di...
What's the difference between an artist and a creator?
Parsing some crucial and nuanced distinctions
blog.metalabel.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This and other work out of Metalabel (especially including work relating to proposed "artist corporations") are worth reading by anyone interested in potential futures for art and (human) artists. blog.metalabel.com/whats-the-di...
I've been binge-reading Rumiko Takahashi's manga Maison Ikkoku, inspired by the headline to an article by @alltsunnodere.bsky.social. Having now read it and the review, I agree that it's something very special; thanks for the great review and recommendation! www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2025...
Why Maison Ikkoku is the Greatest Love Story of All Time
Pride and Prejudice. Romeo and Juliet. The Notebook. These are some of the stories considered the greatest romances of all time, but to me, none of them compares to Maison Ikkoku.
www.animenewsnetwork.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I've been binge-reading Rumiko Takahashi's manga Maison Ikkoku, inspired by the headline to an article by @alltsunnodere.bsky.social. Having now read it and the review, I agree that it's something very special; thanks for the great review and recommendation! www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2025...
Follow-up to last post: If you want to make a pledge for the @galetteweb.bsky.social English vol. 4 at the level that includes mangaka autographs, you should do it now. There's only 60 of those available and 17 are already spoken for, only 15 minutes after the Kickstarter went live.
October 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Follow-up to last post: If you want to make a pledge for the @galetteweb.bsky.social English vol. 4 at the level that includes mangaka autographs, you should do it now. There's only 60 of those available and 17 are already spoken for, only 15 minutes after the Kickstarter went live.
I just backed Vol.4 Yuri Comic Magazine Galette- Special English Edition on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I just backed Vol.4 Yuri Comic Magazine Galette- Special English Edition on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
I can't buy any of Megan's music (because I already bought it all), but you can. I'm particularly partial to Things from Things, 11 Grains, and Little Randoms.
My day is off to a bad start, and also it’s Bandcamp Friday! You know what that means: buy my music so I’ll be less sad and have more money for little treats
Megan Carnes
megancarnes.bandcamp.com
October 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I can't buy any of Megan's music (because I already bought it all), but you can. I'm particularly partial to Things from Things, 11 Grains, and Little Randoms.
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it is once again bandcamp friday, and though i still have many things in the works, they will take time to develop and bloom into what they are meant to be. in the meantime, your support always means so much to me and helps me invest into both time and tools. thank you for your ears 💗
for your #bandcampfriday consideration - music to mend with, music to yearn to. music to accompany you in those moments where the quiet is the canvas of your heart. experimental glitch drone emo jambient drifting pianoscapes & more within 💗
ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com/music
ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com/music
our dear friend, the medic
believing in the remedial peculiarities of music, our dear friend, the medic proffers audio anesthetics, melodic medicines, and all other manner of aural tinctures, gauzes and balms found in her kit t...
ourdearfriendthemedic.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
it is once again bandcamp friday, and though i still have many things in the works, they will take time to develop and bloom into what they are meant to be. in the meantime, your support always means so much to me and helps me invest into both time and tools. thank you for your ears 💗
As others have noted, today is the one-year anniversary of the death of #Cohost. To mark the occasion, a reminder that (almost) all of my Cohost posts are now available at frankhecker.com/tags/cohost/ complete with copies of the comments people made on them. RIP Eggbug, we hardly knew ye!
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
As others have noted, today is the one-year anniversary of the death of #Cohost. To mark the occasion, a reminder that (almost) all of my Cohost posts are now available at frankhecker.com/tags/cohost/ complete with copies of the comments people made on them. RIP Eggbug, we hardly knew ye!
I was listening to Dumptruck’s “For the Country” yesterday. It’s a member of the small set of albums that are perfectly realized examples of their genre. I don’t know if they could have produced another album just as great, but unfortunately music business fuckery denied them that opportunity.
October 1, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I was listening to Dumptruck’s “For the Country” yesterday. It’s a member of the small set of albums that are perfectly realized examples of their genre. I don’t know if they could have produced another album just as great, but unfortunately music business fuckery denied them that opportunity.
Last reskeet: A followup to yesterday's posts about @thaliarchus.bsky.social's poem Spearhand Faring. People wrote a lot of alliterative English poems back then, and are still writing alliterative verse today (and not just about giant robots and mobile suits); @rhunedhel.bsky.social has the details.
September 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Last reskeet: A followup to yesterday's posts about @thaliarchus.bsky.social's poem Spearhand Faring. People wrote a lot of alliterative English poems back then, and are still writing alliterative verse today (and not just about giant robots and mobile suits); @rhunedhel.bsky.social has the details.
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For online info about the Alliterative Morte Arthur and other Middle English alliterative poems, check out alliteration.net/historical-texts/translations-middle-english/
Links to Selected Online Text and Translations of Alliterative Poems from Middle English and Scots
A compendium of links to original texts and translations of alliterative poems in Middle English and Scots, including Layamon's Brut, The Vision of Piers Plowman, the Alliterative Morte Arthur, etc.
alliteration.net
September 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
For online info about the Alliterative Morte Arthur and other Middle English alliterative poems, check out alliteration.net/historical-texts/translations-middle-english/
While I'm skeeting re modern SF-ish works inspired by older texts, I urge you all to check out the Gordian Cycle by @sunshinemoon.zone, which riffs on the Ulster Cycle of Irish legends. The final story in particular is a four-course feast of gonzo goodness. sunshine-moon.itch.io/the-gordian-...
September 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
While I'm skeeting re modern SF-ish works inspired by older texts, I urge you all to check out the Gordian Cycle by @sunshinemoon.zone, which riffs on the Ulster Cycle of Irish legends. The final story in particular is a four-course feast of gonzo goodness. sunshine-moon.itch.io/the-gordian-...
Ah, thank you for the correction! And for others, note that the Standard Ebooks folks have created a nicely formatted free (and DRM-free) EPUB version of Malory's Morte D'Arthur, downloadable at standardebooks.org/ebooks/thoma...
September 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Ah, thank you for the correction! And for others, note that the Standard Ebooks folks have created a nicely formatted free (and DRM-free) EPUB version of Malory's Morte D'Arthur, downloadable at standardebooks.org/ebooks/thoma...
Follow-up from my last reskeet: Spearhand Faring by @Thaliarchus takes inspiration from the Alliterative Morte Arthure, a Middle English poem that's surprisingly readable in the original—more so than Chaucer, for example. You can find it online at metseditions.org/read/KWj7bbR... 1/2
September 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Follow-up from my last reskeet: Spearhand Faring by @Thaliarchus takes inspiration from the Alliterative Morte Arthure, a Middle English poem that's surprisingly readable in the original—more so than Chaucer, for example. You can find it online at metseditions.org/read/KWj7bbR... 1/2
Folks, don't sleep on this. It's great fun, especially if you're a fan of giant robots and alliterative verse. What, you missed part 1? I'm sorry for you. But you can buy the whole thing at <https://thaliarchus.itch.io/spearhand-faring> (assuming itch isn't acting up).
Here's the VOD for the second half of Spearhand Faring!
twitch.tv/videos/25655...
I'll only leave this up for a day or two.
twitch.tv/videos/25655...
I'll only leave this up for a day or two.
Spearhand Faring Part 2 (of 2) - thaliarchus on Twitch
thaliarchus went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Just Chatting VOD now.
twitch.tv
September 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Folks, don't sleep on this. It's great fun, especially if you're a fan of giant robots and alliterative verse. What, you missed part 1? I'm sorry for you. But you can buy the whole thing at <https://thaliarchus.itch.io/spearhand-faring> (assuming itch isn't acting up).
This is a really excellent long-form review of a book about critics of capitalism, worth reading by anyone who makes a habit of opining on the topic online. (It's paywalled, but if you're interested I'll gift a 30-day subscription to the first person who asks.)
From William Bolts to Jeff Bezos: John Cassidy Writes the Story of Capitalism as Seen in the Mirror of Its Discontents & in the Imagination of Its Alternatives
I cannot claim that this is in any sense the Director’s Cut—the actual Democracy Journal review…
braddelong.substack.com/p/from-willi...
I cannot claim that this is in any sense the Director’s Cut—the actual Democracy Journal review…
braddelong.substack.com/p/from-willi...
From William Bolts to Jeff Bezos: John Cassidy Writes the Story of Capitalism as Seen in the Mirror of Its Discontents & in the Imagination of Its Alternatives
I cannot claim that this is in any sense the Director’s Cut—the actual "Democracy Journal" review is a very different beast entirely. I was supposed to write a 2000-word review of John Cassidy's...
braddelong.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This is a really excellent long-form review of a book about critics of capitalism, worth reading by anyone who makes a habit of opining on the topic online. (It's paywalled, but if you're interested I'll gift a 30-day subscription to the first person who asks.)
Last night I completed my third Math Academy course, Mathematics for Learning, and celebrated by blogging about it. The course took me 105 days; I aimed for 40XP/day (MA's measure of effort) and averaged 48. I missed my goal only 11 days and skipped MA only 1 day. frankhecker.com/2025/09/03/m... 1/
September 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Last night I completed my third Math Academy course, Mathematics for Learning, and celebrated by blogging about it. The course took me 105 days; I aimed for 40XP/day (MA's measure of effort) and averaged 48. I missed my goal only 11 days and skipped MA only 1 day. frankhecker.com/2025/09/03/m... 1/
Whale Store xoxo wasn't quite as good as I thought it would be, but Milk and Love are still worth watching, and the setting is a welcome change from the upper-middle to upper-class milieus common in Thai GL series.
Today on Okazu – Whale Store xoxo
bsky.app/profile/fran... says of this oddly named Thai Live-action drama that it is sapphic comfort food, not as delicious as it might have been, but good enough to satisfy Yuri fans hungry for down-home unpretentious fare.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/09/04/w...
bsky.app/profile/fran... says of this oddly named Thai Live-action drama that it is sapphic comfort food, not as delicious as it might have been, but good enough to satisfy Yuri fans hungry for down-home unpretentious fare.
okazu.yuricon.com/2025/09/04/w...
September 4, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Whale Store xoxo wasn't quite as good as I thought it would be, but Milk and Love are still worth watching, and the setting is a welcome change from the upper-middle to upper-class milieus common in Thai GL series.
Have you ever heard this? Recommended for more old-timey computer goodness crossed with modern electronic music: johannjohannsson.com/discography/...
August 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Have you ever heard this? Recommended for more old-timey computer goodness crossed with modern electronic music: johannjohannsson.com/discography/...